[Ibn Abi ʿAsrūn]

(1) The shaykh (2) Shihāb al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Salām ibn al-Muṭahhar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī (3) ʿAsrūn al-Ḥalabī likewise. He was a jurist, an ascetic, and a devoted worshipper. He owned about twenty slave-concubines and, though already advanced in age, was much given to intercourse. Various illnesses then assailed him, wore him down, and he died in Damascus, where he was buried on Mount Qāsiyūn. He was the father of Quṭb al-Dīn and Tāj al-Dīn.

[Ṣāʾin al-Dīn al-Jīlī]

(4) The eminent shaykh, imam, and scholar Ṣāʾin al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Jīlī al-Shāfiʿī—one of the jurisconsults and muftis teaching at the Niẓāmiyya in Baghdad. He composed a “Commentary on al-Tanbīh” by Shaykh Abū Isḥāq. He passed away in Rabīʿ al-Awwal—may Allah have mercy on him.

[The Man of Letters Ibn Miftāḥ]

(5) The eminent shaykh, scholar, preacher, and man of letters Abū Muḥammad Ḥamd ibn Ḥumayd ibn Maḥmūd ibn Ḥumayd ibn Abī al-Ḥasan ibn Abī al-Faraj ibn Miftāḥ al-Tamīmī al-Dunayṣarī, (6) preacher of that town and muftī for its people, a Shāfiʿī jurist.

He studied in Baghdad at the Niẓāmiyya, then returned to his hometown just (7) referred (8) to and authored several works. Ibn al-Saʿī recited from him [hearing directly] (9):

[from the Ṭawīl meter]

My passion has narrated to me tales of longing,
with its chain of transmission leading back to the unique gate (10) of knowledge;
The passing breeze related—on the authority of fever, of the tree, of the valley of al-Ghadhā, of Najd’s high ridges—
that my love and my sorrow have become inseparable:
they will not depart until I am laid to rest within my grave.